Friday, August 12, 2022

BOOK: Blue Lake, Time After Time by Carol Ann Kauffman

 

In honor of the tenth anniversary of it's first publication, I'm re-releasing my first novel, Blue Lake, with this beautiful new cover and an updated edition.

After I finished writing Blue Lake in 2010, I did the typical rounds of sending it to the major publishing houses. I have  lovely letters from Loretta Banks and Elizabeth Barrett, telling me how much they liked it but couldn't use it at the time. Each rejection letter experience took months. I was not a young woman and I wasn't getting any younger. So I decided to go with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and released it on January 21, 2012 and never looked back. Thirty books later, it's still the best move I ever made.

The premise of Kindle was a reader's dream come true. Books from all over the world, from new ones to old ones, all available to read on your kindle device, or any device using the kindle app. And you didn't have to buy more bookcases to store them!


Blue Lake

The love Nicole and Richard share is strong and has survived many lifetimes, but never without sacrifice and heartache. Some call it reincarnation. Some call it fate. But whatever it is, it keeps them apart until they're ready to jump in and help each other on this amazing journey called life.

This time Fate rubs her hands together with glee and laughs as she plays a cruel joke on them by placing them on different continents, twenty years apart.

Nicole was born in Ohio. She doesn't remember her past life. She had a career, got married, and was later widowed. Richard entered life twenty years later in the UK and became an actor. But fate cannot keep them apart. What they have is more than love, more than attraction, or devotion. They are eternal soulmates.

When they finally do meet in Albuquerque, they remember their love and feel overwhelming joy, but the twenty-year age difference plants the painful thorns of doubt, worry, and fear. Their unlikely but undeniable love pulls them closer and closer, while careers, family, and other relationships push them farther and farther apart.

The ten-year period they spend together in this lifetime takes them on many exciting adventures from beautiful New Mexico, across the Atlantic to England, Ireland, Italy, and Aruba. Nicole and Richard have an incredibly strong connection, but they must face not only happiness and joy but the dark side of life and love as well.

Come. Start the adventure with Richard and Nicole, where everything changes, but love remains the same.
Are you ready? Jump!

Amazon Link:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071G6V9K/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1










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Thursday, August 11, 2022

ENTERTAINMENT: The Adam Project (Netflix)



I waited and waited for this one. I was thrilled to see it on Netflix. There’s a ton of Star power in The Adam Project. Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, 
and Zoe SaldaƱa. They are all good. But the little kid, Walker Scobell who plays the 12-year-old Adam steals the show. This kid is incredible.







 






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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Neo-Western Thriller Author Ryan Fleming

 

 Ryan Fleming

Belton, South Carolina

USA


 

Good morning, Ryan, and welcome to Vision and Verse. I hear you wrote a book. What have you written? 

Bloody Prairie 

 

What is your favorite genre to write? 

Neo-Western Thrillers

 

Neo-Western Thrillers are my favorite. Favorite food. 

Chicken wings

 

Tea or coffee? 

Neither, I’m a water drinker.

 

Pizza or ice cream? 

Ice cream 

 

Wine or beer or soda or what? 

Sparkling water

 

Where would you like to visit? 

Central Australia 

 

Favorite musical artist. 

Colter Wall





 

Do you listen to music when you write?  What? 

I listen to classic country and the alternate country that continues 

the tradition. 


What makes you laugh? 

Practical jokes

 

Favorite work of art or sculpture. 

Michelangelo’s sculpture of David

 

How old were you when you started writing? 

I believe I was eleven

 

Do you plan out your book with outlines and notecards? Or just write? 

I wish I could plan. I just write off the cuff.

 

Describe your perfect evening.

A campfire on a dry night in open country

 

Where do you get your inspiration? 

The last decade or so has seen the rise of the neowestern drama. I’m inspired by books, movies, and series such as Longmire, Justified, No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, and Yellowstone. 




 

What do you do when you get a writer's block? 

I simply have to wait and think. Some authors skip until they know what they want to happen, but that’s just not my bad.

 

Who is your favorite author? 

Frank Leslie

 

Best book you ever read?

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

Last book you read.

Raylan: a Novel by Elmore Leonard


What would you do for a living if you weren’t a writer? 

Definitely a wrangler.

 

Who is the one person who has influenced your personal life the most and why? 

My grandfather with his stories of Vietnam

 

If you could sit down and have a conversation with ONE person, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why? 

Theodore Roosevelt. He lived the ultimate rugged American lifestyle. Big game hunter, cowboy, war hero, and soldier.


What advice would you give someone who aspired to be a writer? 

To write, and to show instead of telling in their writing. It took me over a decade to actually develop this skill and I’m still not completely where I’d like to be 

 

Do you have some links for us to follow you?

 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09FRB8C4S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

https://www.facebook.com/ryan.fleming.9041083













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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Firefly Junction: Killer Bridal Party by London Lovett

 



Killer  Bridal Party, Book 2 in the Firefly Junction Cozy Mystery Series, was delightful. 

A bridal party goes camping in the woods. Someone bashes the maid of honor’s head in. Twists and turns shift the suspicion from bridal party member to member. 

Crack investigative journalist Sunni Taylor is on the job, discreetly. Add a handsome police detective, a very good looking ghost, and a psychic friend and you have a real page turner. 

Love the series. I am off to start Book 3. 







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Sunday, August 7, 2022

SCHEDULE: August 8-12. 2022


 
Mon., Aug.8 -ART:
Austrian Landscape and Farm Artist
Alfons Walde
Tues., Aug. 9 -BOOK REVIEW: 
Firefly Junction:
Killer Bridal Party
by London Lovett
Wed., Aug. 10 - INTERVIEW:
Neo-Western Thriller Author
Ryan Fleming
Thurs., Aug. 11 -ENTERTAINMENT:
The Adam Project
(Netflix)
Fri., Aug. 12 - BOOK:
Blue Lake, Time After Time
by Carol Ann Kauffman








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